Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, October ten,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's Word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
study series themes in the Gospel of John and our
caption for today is the Resurrection of Lazarus. The Resurrection
of Lazare Yes, we'll get into that in just a moment,
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this day
and getting us so far into our week. Father, I
just pray that we will trust you for every step
in our lives, that you will transform our lives, resurrect
all the things that are now dead in our lives
that you want for us to live in. Please give
us a living faith to connect with your power in
Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. The resurrection
of Lazarus. What an incredible story. And as I have
said to you many times before, it's not just about stories.
Even those stories are incredible good stories. That's wonderful like
it gets our minds going. It helps us to dream
and envision the things of God. I'm talking about those
kinds of stories. But we need to really start to
apply the stories. We need to see how those stories
are connected to who we are and who God wants
us to be, you see. And so the story of
Lazarus is one such story, the resurrection, the resurrection. And
so now we understand from the Bible Book of John
chapter eleven, when you have your spare time, no, not
spare time, I want you to prioritize the time. I
take it back like repeat, like edit, I need you
to prioritize time. Read in the Bible Book of John
chapter eleven and see what God did there, Okay? And
so the Bible says that there was a message. The
people that Jesus loved sent a message to him to say,
the one whom thou lovest, the one you love, Lazarus,
he's sick. He's sick. Now, if somebody that you're very
close to is very sick and people are sending a
message to you, there's an expectation from the people who
sent the message. Ah, there's an expectation. Like in this case,
the expectation would be that Jesus would show up like
he would get on the first thing, smoking a donkey,
he would walk. I don't know how he always traveled, Camel,
I don't know. But they expected that he would show
up and show up quickly. Why because the one that
you love, Jesus, he is sick, he's deathly ill. Okay. Well,
Jesus didn't do that. And the Bible says that he
did not show up until the fourth day. Okay, the
fourth day. This is the time where people would lose hope,
because even based on the way that the people of
God and the people around in the community looked at death,
it was like only after the third day. So by
the fourth day they're really dead. We can still argue
about it until it's the fourth day. Once it's the
fourth day, we're not arguing anymore. That person is actually dead.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know why they thought that way, but that's
the way that they thought. And so Jesus he goes
at the point where it's the apex of hopelessness in
people who had no hope. Okay, And so I will
read now for the Book of John, chapter eleven, verse
thirty eight. Jesus therefore, again, groaning in himself, cometh to
the grave. It was a cave, and the stone lay
upon it and then he starts to speak. Now we
get to roll back a little bit, roll back a
little bit in time. Jesus shows up. It is the
fourth day, and as soon as he gets near enough someone,
one of the sisters, she comes and she says, Jesus,
if you had been here, our brother would not have died.
And it's like, okay, I'm here now, but Jesus, we're
hopeless now, right, But I'm here now, So let me
just share something with you. Do you believe that I
can wake him up? Do you believe that I can
wake him up? I left out a lot about the story,
the discussion between heat Jesus and his disciples, But now
do you believe that I can I can wake him up?
The people are already distraught. Jesus weeps because the people
are distraught even though Jesus is present there. They felt hopeless,
even though the hope of life is in their presence.
Do you believe that I can raise him? Right? Can
I raise him from the dead? And then, of course
the sister, thinking that she had faith, was saying, yes,
of course, I believe. I believe that in the resurrection
that's in the future, like we haven't even gotten to
that point. Yet this October in twenty twenty four, and
in the resurrection, you can do it. You can do it.
And Jesus is saying, now, he's implying, listen, I am
the Resurrection. He says those words. He's saying, you're limiting
my power by circumstances and time. If you had been
here past tense, my brother would not have died. He's dead. Okay,
what does that mean to the one who gave life
to every living thing, every creature that has ever lived.
Jesus gave life to that creature, every human who's ever lived.
Jesus gave life to that human. And so the Bible
is teaching us, in Jesus's voice that, no matter how
hopeless the situation appears to us, that he is currently
the resurrection. I am, he said, the resurrection and the life.
If a person dies, huh, yet shall he live if
that person has faith in me? Like, do you believe this?
And so the Bible says, Jesus said, okay, all right,
take away the stone. You take away the stone. Martha,
the sister of him that was dead, said unto him,
But Lord, by this time, he's decomposing. He stinketh, and
he's been dead for four days. She's saying it's hopeless.
It's hopeless. Jesus said, unto her, said I not unto THEE,
that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory
of God verse forty one. He's speaking to you, brothers
and sisters, right now. Then they took away the stone
from the place where the dead was laid, and Jesus
lifted up his eyes, and he said, Father, I thank
THEE that thou hast heard me verse forty two. And
I knew that thou hearest me always. But because of
the people which stand by, I said that they may
believe that thou hast sent me. And then when he
had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice. He
was very specific, brothers and sisters. He said, Lazarus, come forth.
What happened? I need you to type in the chat.
When he said Lazarus, come forth, what happened? The Bible
says here in verse forty four. And he that was dead,
I want you to type in the chat he was dead,
but God, he was dead, but God, he that was
dead came forth bound hand and foot, with grave clothes
and his face was bound about with a napkin, and
then Jesus said, unto them, loose him and let him go.
You see, Jesus came into the space where the people
were hopeless. Jesus came into the space where they were
hopeless to bring hope and glory. Hope to the people
and glory to God. He wanted them to understand that
his power is not limited to time or space. His
time is not limited by circumstances. When Jesus, who is life,
is in the place where you are, and he is
present to heal and to transform, just have faith in
him and he will remove the grave clothes. He will
loose you and let you go so you can be
of glory to Him.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,